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Re: [Patch] To handle Win32 pipe names
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> So that explains your patch to symlink_info::check. But it's not
> exactly right to circumvent this only for pipes. Any \\.\foo path
> should get the same handling. Wouldn't it be more straightforward to
> use is_unc_share or a slightly modified version of is_unc_share?
I'm confused here. Are you suggesting that UNC paths can't contain
symlinks? I use UNC paths to access Samba shares containing Cygwin
symlinks regularly. I hope that won't become unsupported.
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